Introduced in 1988, Nikon SB-23 is a lovely, extraordinary compact TTL Speedlightunit. It is highly portable and despite its compactness and lightweight (weighs
merely 140g), it has a great compatibility with many Nikon AF SLRs with its AF-assist
illumination. It is also usable as an companion flash for Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash
with the later Nikon AF cameras such as F5, F100, F90x, F85, PRONEA 600i or F70 etc.
with any AF-Nikkor CPU lens*. With F4-series, F-801s, F-601, F50 or F-401x
and a CPU lense **, it synchronizes well to be used as a dedicated
Speedlight for Matrix Balanced Fill-Flash.

The SB-23 has been listed in Nikon product
listing for quite a long time (even when the Nikon F5 was introduced, it was still
available). The tiny flash is the most compact among all Nikon AF TTL speedlights
prior to3.2
oz Nikon ultra-compact Nikon AF-TTL SB-30 Speedlight that introduced in 2002/3. It
is a very handy flash as secondary flash unit in a multiple flash setup and/or syncro-sunlight
fill flash. Other than TTL auto, it can still be used in manual flash control.

Although the flash
has not been equipped with many advanced features found in more sophisticated flash
such as SB-24, SB-25 etc,. but this ultra-compact Nikon speedlight carries the advantage
of being very economical and highly portable to be used as a small companion flash
to fully supplement any Nikon AF SLR to explore TTL flash photography. The only apparent
weakness you can pick on this flash is its rather weak guide number it offers but
this is NOT essentially the main objective in its original intention to serve as
a powerful TTL flash, so it is still all right if you can find its purpose in fill-flash
in and around during location shooting.

W A R N I
N G: The
New G-SERIES Nikkor lenses have
no aperture ring on the lense, they cannot
adjust aperture(s)when
operating in manual exposure control even with certain earlier AF Nikon SLR camera
models. Similarly, not ALL features provide
in a modern AF-S series AF-Nikkor lenses can be utilized fully with a Nikon F4. Please
refer to your local distributor for compatibility issue(s).

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